A Python script (with a Perl script to which you can pipe output to write XHTML, if you have a recent enough copy of XML::Writer) to check how well your RSS is delivered and compressed and cached. Geeky goodness.

Save your worrying about dynamic publishing in MT for things like server load and speed and whether you can live without the plugins that don’t work: there’s no need to worry about Google losing track of your pages, because the URLs for your permalinks don’t change at all.